Saturday, January 01, 2022

TODAY! New Years Day Specials at Third Eye!

Feb 5: X Deaths of Wolverine signing at Third Eye Comics in Annapolis

http://www.conventionscene.com/2021/12/24/md-x-deaths-of-wolverine-signing/

Comic creators Ben Percy and Joshua Cassara sign at Third Eye Comics in Annapolis on Saturday, February 5th from 11am – 1pm.

RSVP on Facebook!

Third Eye Comics
209 Chinquapin Round Road, Annapolis, MD 21401
(410) 897-0322

Jan 9: P&P Live! Xavier Navarro Aquino | VELORIO - with Victor LaValle

Lavalle has done comics for Marvel and BOOM! Studios.

Jan  09 P&P Live! Xavier Navarro Aquino | VELORIO - with Victor LaValle

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pp-live-xavier-navarro-aquino-velorio-with-victor-lavalle-tickets-224752218937

Event Information

Join P&P Live! with Xavier Navarro Aquino and Victor LaValle, discussing Aquino's forthcoming "Velorio"!

About this event

Velorio—meaning "wake"—is a story of strength, resilience, and hope; a tale of peril and possibility buoyed by the deeply held belief in a people's ability to unite against those corrupted by power.

Camila is haunted by the death of her sister, Marisol, who was caught by a mudslide during the huracán. Unable to part with Marisol, Camila carries her through town, past the churchyard, and, eventually, to the supposed utopia of Memoria.

Urayoán, the idealistic, yet troubled cult leader of Memoria, has a vision for this new society, one that in his eyes is peaceful and democratic. The paradise he preaches lures in the young, including Bayfish, a boy on the cusp of manhood, and Morivivi, a woman whose outward toughness belies an inner tenderness for her friends. But as the different members of Memoria navigate Urayoán's fiery rise, they will need to confront his violent authoritarian impulses in order to find a way to reclaim their home.

Xavier Navarro Aquino was born and raised in Puerto Rico. His fiction has appeared in Tin House, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, and Guernica. He has been awarded scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, a MacDowell Fellowship, and an ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowship at Dartmouth College. Aquino is currently an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame where he teaches in the MFA program.

Victor LaValle is the author of the short story collection Slapboxing with Jesus, four novels, The Ecstatic, Big Machine, The Devil in Silver, and The Changeling and two novellas, Lucretia and the Kroons and The Ballad of Black Tom. He is also the creator and writer of two comic books: Destroyer and Eve. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including the World Fantasy Award, British Fantasy Award, Bram Stoker Award, Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, Shirley Jackson Award, American Book Award, and the key to Southeast Queens.

Jan 19: Nnedi Okorafor and Jesse Morales-Small for AKATA WOMAN

Nnedi has written for Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, IDW, and Abrams.

Nnedi Okorafor and Jesse Morales-Small for AKATA WOMAN

Loyalty is so excited to celebrate Akata Woman, the highly anticipated new release by Nnedi Okorafor! Nnedi Okorafor will be in conversation with Jesse Morales-Small (aka @bowtiesandbooks)! This event is free to attend and will be held digitally via Crowdcast. Click here to register for the event. You can also order a copy of Akata Woman below to be automatically added to the registration list, and there will be an option to snag the book during the event. **Each purchase of Akata Woman will include a signed bookplate while supplies last!**

ABOUT THE BOOK

From the moment Sunny Nwazue discovered she had mystical energy flowing in her blood, she sought to understand and control her powers. Throughout her adventures in Akata Witch and Akata Warrior, she had to navigate the balance between nearly everything in her life—America and Nigeria, the "normal" world and the one infused with juju, human and spirit, good daughter and powerful Leopard Person. Now, those hard lessons and abilities are put to the test in a quest so dangerous and fantastical, it would be madness to go...but may destroy the world if she does not. With the help of her friends, Sunny embarks on a mission to find a precious object hidden deep in an otherworldly realm. Defeating the guardians of the prize will take more from Sunny than she has to give, and triumph will mean she will be forever changed.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nnedi Okorafor is an international award-winning novelist of science fiction and fantasy for children and adults. Born in the United States to Nigerian immigrant parents, Nnedi is known for weaving African culture into evocative settings and memorable characters. Nnedi has received the World Fantasy, Hugo, Nebula, and Lodestar Awards, amongst others, for her books. Her fans include Neil Gaiman, Rick Riordan, John Green, and Ursula K. Le Guin. She holds a PhD in Literature. Learn more at nnedi.com or follow her on Twitter @nnedi.

ABOUT THE IN CONVERSATION PARTNER

Jesse Morales-Small (they/y'all pronouns) is a trans Afro-Chicano Booktuber focusing on marginalized narratives across genres. They are also the founder of Enby Book Club, a Non-Binary bookclub centering Non-Binary/Trans spectrum authors and their stories. Often, Jesse can be found in the woods with their therapy dog or hard at work on their debut novel. In addition to their BookTube channel, you can also find Jesse on Bookstagram and on Twitter @bowtiesbooks.

Please note Loyalty has a zero tolerance policy for harassment or intimidation of any kind during this virtual event. 

Event date: 
Wednesday, January 19, 2022 - 6:00pm

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "What's Happy About It?"

From Mike Flugennock, DC's anarchist cartoonist -

"What's Happy About It?"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3365

As seen from the POV of Old Father Time.

Happy New Year? Huh, what's happy about it?
No, really; I know it's only January 1st, but what the hell's happy about it?


Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
and follow me on Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@flugennock

Friday, December 31, 2021

Happy New Year from Mike & ComicsDC



The Post on superhero movie actors

Hollywood's top 12 superhero performances of the year, ranked

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 12/31/21

Andrew Vachss, Hardboiled Writer, Defender of Children, Passes Away

December 29, 2021

by Adi Tantimedh

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/andrew-vachss-hardboiled-writer-defender-of-children-passes-away/

 

A Hero's Legacy Comics & Collectibles In Dire Need Of Assistance [store]

  December 30, 2021

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/a-heros-legacy-comics-collectibles-in-dire-need-of-assistance/

 

The Marvel vs. Martin Scorsese Feud Needs to Die

Kyndall Cunningham

Dec. 28, 2021

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-marvel-vs-martin-scorsese-feud-needs-to-die

 

Angoulême 2022 issues formal statement on postponement of festival

Originally scheduled for January 27 to 30, the festival hopes to still take place sometime in late March/early April

Dean Simons

12/30/2021

https://www.comicsbeat.com/angouleme-2022-postponement-statement/

 

INTERVIEW: Nick Bruel on line one for BAD KITTY GETS A PHONE

The newest entry in the New York Times-Bestselling series sees Kitty entering the cellular age!

Avery Kaplan

12/30/2021

https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-nick-bruel-on-line-one-for-bad-kitty-gets-a-phone/

 

Bulletproof Comics sets up a pop-up shop at the movies for SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME

Imagine coming out of a superhero movie and straight into a comics shop.

Ricardo Serrano Denis

12/30/2021

https://www.comicsbeat.com/bulletproof-comics-spider-man-no-way-home-pop-up-shop/

 

INTERVIEW: R.M. Peaslee and R.G. Weiner Deconstruct Spider-Man in WEB-SPINNING HEROICS [scholarship]

Hannah Means-Shannon

03/11/2013

https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-r-m-peaslee-and-r-g-weiner-deconstruct-spider-man-in-web-spinning-heroics/

 

TOP 10 KIDS COMICS OF 2021

We Laughed, We Cried, We Bombarded Our Friends with Trivia

 by Brigid Alverson on December 29, 2021

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/50076/top-10-kids-comics-2021

 

'Poupelle of Chimney Town' Review: Seeking Refuse

By Ben Kenigsberg

A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 31, 2021, Section C, Page 8 of the New York edition with the headline: Poupelle of Chimney Town.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/30/movies/poupelle-of-chimney-town-review.html

Thursday, December 30, 2021

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 12/30/21

This village was a book capital. What happens when people stop buying so many books? [A once-busy Belgian 'book town' starts work on its sequel]

By Reis Thebault and Quentin Ariès

Washington Post December 28, 2021  A10

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/26/book-tourism-belgium/

 

Embracer Group enters into an agreement to acquire Dark Horse and forms the tenth operative group

2021-12-21 10:07

https://embracer.com/release/embracer-group-enters-into-an-agreement-to-acquire-dark-horse-and-forms-the-tenth-operative-group/

 

'Spider-Man' is a box office hero. Is Hollywood in a post-movie star era?

By Ryan Faughnder

Dec. 28, 2021

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/newsletter/2021-12-28/spider-man-is-a-box-office-hero-is-hollywood-in-a-post-movie-star-era-the-wide-shot

 

How 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' Was "Shaped" by Its Secret Stars

Screenwriters Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers reflect on working with its mystery protagonists and dive into the biggest twists of the $1 billion grossing superhero film: "No one knows the character as well as — or gives as much thought to the character — as someone who has to then embody it and sell it."

Aaron Couch

December 29, 2021

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/spider-man-no-way-home-andrew-garfield-tobey-maguire-1235068153/

 

'Black Panther' fans implore Marvel to #RecastTChalla after Chadwick Boseman's death

BY CHRISTI CARRASSTAFF

DEC. 28, 2021

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2021-12-28/chadwick-boseman-black-panther-recast-tchalla-marvel

 

Stan Lee Knew Early on Comic Collecting Would Be a Highly Lucrative Hobby

Ryan Parker

December 28, 2021

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/stan-lee-predicted-marvel-comic-collecting-lucrative-hobby-1235067767/

 

Thirty Minutes with Stan Lee (circa 1975)

Jan 27, 2016

Sean Howe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=areUni1_j9U

 

Daredevil Writer Brutally Kills Major Spider-Man Character in MCU Fan Art; Daredevil writer Chip Zdarsky creates fan art for Spider-Man: No Way Home, imagining a major character's death while paying homage to comics and films.

By Sean Gribbin

CBR December 26 2021

https://www.cbr.com/daredevil-chip-zdarsky-spider-man-uncle-ben-death/

 

Interview with Chip Zdarsky (December 2021) [Daredevil]

Kuljit Mithra

December 2021

https://www.manwithoutfear.com/daredevil-interviews/Chip-Zdarsky-Devils-Reign

 

Chip Zdarsky On Daredevil, Newburn, Howard The Duck, All-Nighter, Kaptara, Public Domain, Batman!

Daniel Fee

Dec 28, 2021

Daniel Fee33

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVDP_dZvyOI

 

Covid strikes again: Angoulême 2022 delayed to Spring

With a worldwide surge in Omicron cases and the Monday announcement of new covid restrictions in France, the Festival declares it will postpone

Dean Simons

12/29/2021

https://www.comicsbeat.com/covid-strikes-again-angouleme-2022-delayed-to-spring/

 

2021 Prism Award Winners Announced

The winners and finalists were revealed in a video released on YouTube on Monday.

Avery Kaplan

12/29/2021

https://www.comicsbeat.com/2021-prism-award-winners-announced/

 

 

Schomburg's Black Comic Book Festival 2022 goes all virtual in face of latest covid surge

Despite recently announcing a hybrid 10th anniversary event, New York's Schomburg Center has once more made the Black Comic Book Festival a wholly virtual affair.

Dean Simons

12/29/2021

https://www.comicsbeat.com/schomburgs-black-comic-book-festival-2022-goes-all-virtual-in-face-of-latest-covid-surge/

 

The Black Comic Book Festival Is Turning 10!

by Lisa Herndon, Communications and Publications Manager, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

December 13, 2021

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2021/12/13/black-comic-book-festival-turning-10

 

Confessions of a Black Comic Book Festival Cosplayer: Michael Flood's Impromptu Idea With a Fellow Cosplayer Helped Start a Festival Tradition

by Lisa Herndon, Communications and Publications Manager, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

December 21, 2021

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2021/12/21/black-comic-book-festival-cosplayer-michael-floods

 

A Conversation with Micheline Hess: Designer of Black Comic Book Festival Artwork Shares Her Inspiration

by Lisa Herndon, Communications and Publications Manager, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

December 27, 2021

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2021/12/27/conversation-micheline-hess-designer-black-comic-book-festival

 

Graphic Novel Production Schedules Are Too Short—and the Publishing Industry Should Care About It

by Nilah Magruder

December 20, 2021

Note: This article first appeared in The Bulletin #216 in October 2021.

https://www.sfwa.org/2021/12/20/graphic-novel-production-schedules-too-short/

Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Nilah Magruder, an artist based in Western Maryland, on deadlines

Graphic Novel Production Schedules Are Too Short—and the Publishing Industry Should Care About It

by Nilah Magruder

December 20, 2021

Note: This article first appeared in The Bulletin #216 in October 2021.

https://www.sfwa.org/2021/12/20/graphic-novel-production-schedules



Author headshot of Nilah Magruder

Nilah Magruder is an artist based in Western Maryland. She is the author of M.F.K., a middle-grade graphic novel and winner of the Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity, and How To Find a Fox, a picture book. She has published short stories in Fireside Magazine and the All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages anthology. Nilah has also written for Marvel Comics, illustrated children's books for Disney- Hyperion, Scholastic, and Penguin, and worked as a writer and storyboard artist in television animation. She is currently writing and illustrating three graphic novels. When she is not working, Nilah is watching movies, baking, and snuggling with her cat, dog, and turtle.

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 12/29/21

Goodwyn, Al. 2021.

Best Of 2021.

Goodwyn Editorial Cartoons (December 28): http://xp4zn.mjt.lu/nl2/xp4zn/5y340.html

 

POLITICAL CARTOONS part 4: MICHAEL RAMIREZ

David Apatoff

Illustration Art December 13, 2021

http://illustrationart.blogspot.com/2021/12/political-cartoons-part-4-michael.html

 

POLITICAL CARTOONS part 5: MIRKO ILIĆ

David Apatoff

Illustration Art December 18, 2021

http://illustrationart.blogspot.com/2021/12/political-cartoons-part-5-mirko-ilic.html

 

POLITICAL CARTOONS part 6: ANN TELNAES

David Apatoff

Illustration Art December 26, 2021

http://illustrationart.blogspot.com/2021/12/political-cartoons-part-6-ann-telnaes.html

 

Joel Pett offers some 2020 hindsight of a year to forget

By Joel Pett | Marcus Dorsey

Lexington Herald Leader December 28, 2020

https://www.kentucky.com/opinion/editorial-cartoons/joel-pett/article248130085.html

 

Cartoonist Phil Hands unveils his 2021 jeer in review

    Phil Hands | Wisconsin State Journal

    Dec 27, 2021

    https://madison.com/opinion/columnists/cartoonist-phil-hands-unveils-his-2021-jeer-in-review/article_9ee9027e-dba4-5adb-91a7-881031d22ed3.html

 

USA TODAY cartoonist Mike Thompson's 2021 in review

 Dec. 27, 2021

https://www.sj-r.com/picture-gallery/opinion/2021/12/27/2021-funny-cartoon-review-today-cartoonist-mike-thompsons-2021-review/9024561002/

 

The Year in Cartoons: Michael De Adder

Editorial cartoonist Michael De Adder shares the insightful cartoons he is most proud of from 2021.

Toronto Star Dec. 27, 2021

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorial_cartoon/2021/12/28/the-year-in-cartoons-theo-moudakis.html

 

The Year in Cartoons: Theo Moudakis

Editorial cartoonist Theo Moudakis looks back at the events that acted as his muse in 2021.

Toronto Star  Dec. 28, 2021

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorial_cartoon/2021/12/28/the-year-in-cartoons-theo-moudakis.html

 

The Year in Cartoons: Michael De Adder

Editorial cartoonist Michael De Adder shares the insightful cartoons he is most proud of from 2021.

Toronto Star Dec. 27, 2021

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorial_cartoon/2021/12/28/the-year-in-cartoons-theo-moudakis.html

 

The Year in Cartoons: Theo Moudakis

Editorial cartoonist Theo Moudakis looks back at the events that acted as his muse in 2021.

Toronto Star  Dec. 28, 2021

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorial_cartoon/2021/12/28/the-year-in-cartoons-theo-moudakis.html

 

Matthew Vaughn on 'The King's Man,' the Future of 'Kingsman' and Reuniting with Henry Cavill

Brian Davids

December 24, 2021

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/kings-man-director-matthew-vaughn-sequel-streaming-1235067371/

 

T. Mark Taylor, Artist and Toy Designer for He-Man and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Dies at 80

Both franchises went on to launch animated series as well as movies, while Taylor's toy work was featured in documentaries.

Associated Press December 26, 2021

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/t-mark-taylor-dead-artist-toy-designer-for-he-man-and-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-1235067478/

 

Why Dark Horse Embraced a Sale to a Swedish Gaming Giant

The deal, expected to close in 2022, gives the publisher financial stability while offering owner Embracer access to new IP.

Graeme McMillan

December 28, 2021

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/dark-horse-comics-sale-embracer-1235067627/

 

How Smithers Came Out

The father-son writing duo Rob and Johnny LaZebnik teamed up (with an assist from Christine Baranski) to at last create an openly gay romantic life for Waylon Smithers on "The Simpsons."

By Andrew Marantz

December 27, 2021

Published in the print edition of the January 3 & 10, 2022, issue, with the headline "Whither Smithers?."

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/03/how-smithers-came-out

BD store in a Belgian town featured in the Post

This village was a book capital. What happens when people stop buying so many books? [A once-busy Belgian 'book town' starts work on its sequel]

Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Apatoff on Ramirez, Ilic, and Telnaes

POLITICAL CARTOONS part 4: MICHAEL RAMIREZ

David Apatoff

Illustration Art December 13, 2021


POLITICAL CARTOONS part 5: MIRKO ILIĆ

David Apatoff

Illustration Art December 18, 2021


POLITICAL CARTOONS part 6: ANN TELNAES